Trek 2300 with carbon maintubes. I love the purple. The wheels are not the ones for this bike, they are for another bike. I am waiting for some purple Sapim nipples to build the wheels that this bike will wear.

Current weight with old spec pedals, computor and two heavy bottle cages but without pump, bottles and saddle bag is 8.88kg or 19.54 lbs. Now it is 8.26g as if 12/12/2012

The wheels it will be getting will be Kinlin XR-200 with Novatec A291/F482 hubs, CX-ray spokes and purple nipples. These will weigh 1370g hopefully they will be durable for me (~79-80kg), they will be an experiment.

I wish I was better at taking pictures, a better camera would help so would washing the bike. Trek's of this era look so much better without Trek all over the bike and sometimes the rider.

The XR200 will be 28 spoke front and rear and are an experiemnt to see if they can be reliable for my weight, I may break them but the rims are not expensive so I am not worried. I buy everything trade.

Some changes afoot. I am building the wheels. I will post phot's when done but the rear weighs in at 762g, I will use veo plugs to shave anopther few grams and the skewer weighs 35g. I also hop I win the Cinelli Grommo stem of ebay and ?I have found a set of threaded forks which are carbon but with a Ti steerer. They weigh 340g. All these changes should drop alot of weight.

A total of 220g will be knocked of with the correct wheels now as the wheels it had are now on the red bike where they belong. With a the addition of carbon bottle cages a further 70-80g is being dropped of. That will take the weight down to 8.6 kg.

I do some photo's on Monday and weight the bike to confirm it's weight. It's a start but a long way to go.

On it way from spain is a Cinelli Grammo Ti quill stem, that will shed more weight.Parts yet to buy (I am watching a few on ebay)Dura ace 7800 cranks -I;ll be using a 6600 crankset for the forseeable futureDurace 7800 rear mech - now got a 6600 rear mechDurace 7800 front mech band on 34.9mmMiche supertype 10 speed cassette - I won't be buying this now as I have dura ace cassettes instead.10 speed chain Planet X brakes - I keep on changing my mindLook Keo blade pedals - look ar's will have to do for now

The expensive part will be the carbon forks with Ti threaded steerer. Keeping the fork threaded and a quill stem is my nod to the period of the bike. All this should bring the weight down to about ~7.4kg maybe a little less. I'll stop there as that will be light enough for this old bike.

Well it has just got lighter. I have fitted a pair of Look Arc pedals that weight 334g that 120g lost. They cost me not about £10 as I got a 4 sets of Look delta pedals for £30 + some chain ring bolts. My kind of deal.

Given my budget restrictions I have had to curtail my ambitions for this bike so as these were cheap, allow me to keep the same cleats as I have on my other bikes and are lighter than 1056 pedals on they go.

I now weighs 8.26kg.

On the way though is a S/H Ultegra 6600 rear mech and a S/H Dura ace 7401 rear mech both of which are about 200g. I think there will be tuning of the rear mech how far I will go I have not decided yet. I will how ever also be fitting the 10 speed dura ace cassette that is coming too. I also have a 6600 crankset to go on. All of that will save another 300g a bit more if I do tune the rear mech. Also I need to by a dremel and have a go at shaving weight of the seat tube front mech braze on clamp as I cannot afford the ones on offer at Fair wheel bikes.

I also have a 9 speed Ti dura ace cassette on it way as well which I might use instead of the 10 speed one. I'll see.

I really want to find a 7402 crankset now but them I would have to be buy a Ti axled BB like a Phil wood or TA specilaites but that will get expensive so I probably won't.

Weight now 7.68 kg or 16.9 lbs Very happy now. From the weight saved it should be 7.643g or 16.81 lbs but as my luagage scales have been used for all the bike weighing so far I will have to stick to them. I do have doubts about there accuracy now.

Still waiting for the mech tuning kit comprising of a complete set of alloy bolts for the rear mech and limit scres for the frot mech. Next will be carbon pulley's and a fibre light cage.

Just set up the brakes properly and those KCNC anchor bolts are abit iify. I had to torque to the point the allen key was beinging to slip to get it to bite on the cable. I think I should have roughened up the anchor plate first to get it to bite more. The bolt is holding but will need to be replaced when it comes to cable changing time.

Also when torquing the anchor bolt I had to hold the brake caliper arms to stop it twisting. I hope it is not too flexy when riding. I will test ride in the light tomorrow.

Edit- brakes tested they feel fine. Now for more weight loss on the bike that is.

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